Hi everyone!
The idea of enclose modern hardware into a vintage AIO computer's case (especially C64 and Amiga) started spreading around the world the world some years ago with lots of homemade DIY projects, I've seen a Mac Mini in an A1200, a Minimig in an A600 and lots of normal PCs (either micro atx and mini itx) in various A500s.
We also know about the new Commodore USA and "its" products, right in these days they started delivering their brand new C64x to customers, which is such a "large scale industrial adaptation" of the idea I was talking before.
So, I had some old but still working pieces of hardware I wasn't using anymore at home, so I said: why not?
Here's my own low-cost project to get a (more or less) modern computer with that retro-looking we all like, the Amiga 500itX!
Here's a list of things I already had:
Original Amiga 500 case with some yellowing
Maxtor 120gb IDE HDD
LG IDE DVD-ROM
Trust Mini 4 USB ports HUB
Unbranded USB SD card reader
Cables, switches, screws...
and things I needed/still need to buy:
VIA Epia C800 mini-itx used mobo (VIA C3 @800MHz CPU + 256mb RAM): 30€ on Ebay
SUNTEK Micro ATX 150W new PSU: 19€ on Ebay
Individual Computers Keyrah Amiga Version: 31€ on Vesalia's online store
Standard A1200 keyboard: I still haven't it, but I found a friend who can sell it to me on an italian Amiga forum.
Now project it's almost finished, just need to mount on the A1200 keyboard and to improve/fix some little parts.
Let's start!
Here's the part 1, when I fitted and fixed the mobo some days ago:
Then, I installed new LEDs for Power and HDD activity on the top part of the case, drowning them in the hot glue... I don't like so much how them look like, I think I'll use original LEDs, just have to desolder them from the old keyboard.
Here's where I placed the USB SD card reader, at the empty floppy drive slot!
Here comes the Trust Mini 4 USB ports HUB, I placed it whit some glue where there were the joystick ports!
I placed the HDD simply with 4 screws from the bottom:
I think that's enough for now
I'll post part 2 pics later
The idea of enclose modern hardware into a vintage AIO computer's case (especially C64 and Amiga) started spreading around the world the world some years ago with lots of homemade DIY projects, I've seen a Mac Mini in an A1200, a Minimig in an A600 and lots of normal PCs (either micro atx and mini itx) in various A500s.
We also know about the new Commodore USA and "its" products, right in these days they started delivering their brand new C64x to customers, which is such a "large scale industrial adaptation" of the idea I was talking before.
So, I had some old but still working pieces of hardware I wasn't using anymore at home, so I said: why not?
Here's my own low-cost project to get a (more or less) modern computer with that retro-looking we all like, the Amiga 500itX!
Here's a list of things I already had:
Original Amiga 500 case with some yellowing
Maxtor 120gb IDE HDD
LG IDE DVD-ROM
Trust Mini 4 USB ports HUB
Unbranded USB SD card reader
Cables, switches, screws...
and things I needed/still need to buy:
VIA Epia C800 mini-itx used mobo (VIA C3 @800MHz CPU + 256mb RAM): 30€ on Ebay
SUNTEK Micro ATX 150W new PSU: 19€ on Ebay
Individual Computers Keyrah Amiga Version: 31€ on Vesalia's online store
Standard A1200 keyboard: I still haven't it, but I found a friend who can sell it to me on an italian Amiga forum.
Now project it's almost finished, just need to mount on the A1200 keyboard and to improve/fix some little parts.
Let's start!
Here's the part 1, when I fitted and fixed the mobo some days ago:
Then, I installed new LEDs for Power and HDD activity on the top part of the case, drowning them in the hot glue... I don't like so much how them look like, I think I'll use original LEDs, just have to desolder them from the old keyboard.
Here's where I placed the USB SD card reader, at the empty floppy drive slot!
Here comes the Trust Mini 4 USB ports HUB, I placed it whit some glue where there were the joystick ports!
I placed the HDD simply with 4 screws from the bottom:
I think that's enough for now
I'll post part 2 pics later